Crowd-Seeded New York Indigo Farm


Natural Dye workshops with indigo, pokeberry, rudbeckia, 2018–2019

Harvesting indigo, late September

Indigo dyeing with resist stitching: Imagining Eliza (Lucas Pinckney)

Reinterpreting Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s shoes

Indigo-dyed fabrics so many ways…

Indigo cold leaf dyeing with salt + carefully calibrated fermented, hot leaf bath

Fall harvesting

Going straight from leaves to dye

How does the blue dye come from the frothy vat?

Indigo grew all summer. Dye experiments began.

Indigo at GrowNYC, Summer 2018

Indigo at GrowNYC, June 2018

Buds at Governors Island, GrowNYC Teaching Garden

Indigo Planting at GrowNYC’s Governors Island Teaching Garden, 2018

Planting Seeds, winter 2018